Question: Do all mobile phones support the latest Android operating system?

Answer: Some Android-powered phone allows you to upgrade to the higher Android
operating system version. However, not all upgrades would allow you to get the latest
version. It depends largely on the capability and specs of the phone, whether it can support
the newer features available under the latest Android version.

Question: What is AAPT?

Answer: AAPT is short for Android Asset Packaging Tool. This tool provides developers with
the ability to deal with zip-compatible archives, which includes creating, extracting as well
as viewing its contents.

Question: Differentiate Activities from Services.

Answer: Activities can be closed, or terminated anytime the user wishes. On the other hand,
services are designed to run behind the scenes, and can act independently. Most services
run continuously, regardless of whether there are certain or no activities being executed.

Question: What is the Android Architecture?

Answer: Android Architecture is made up of 4 key components: Linux Kernel, Libraries,

Android Framework, Android Applications

Question: What are Intents?

Answer: Intents displays notification messages to the user from within the Android enabled
device. It can be used to alert the user of a particular state that occurred. Users can be made
to respond to intents.

Question: What are the core components under the Android application architecture?

Answer: There are 5 key components under the Android application architecture: – services
– intent – resource externalization – notifications – content providers
Question: How are escape characters used as attribute?

Answer: Escape characters are preceded by double backslashes. For example, a newline
character is created using ‘\\n’

Question: What is a visible activity?

Answer: A visible activity is one that sits behind a foreground dialog. It is actually visible to
the user, but not necessarily being in the foreground itself.